REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on a Council Written Request (Council Policy 030) Submitted by Councilmember Jain Requesting to Place an Agenda Item at a Future Council Meeting to Consider a Neighborhood Stadium Relations Committee
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Enhance Community Engagement and Transparency
BACKGROUND
Council Policy 030 - Adding an Item on the Agenda (Attachment 1) sets forth the procedure for written petitions. Any member of the public or Council may submit a written request raising any issue or item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council. Per the policy, the written request will be submitted on the agenda, in the form substantially provided by the requestor, without any staff analysis, including fiscal review, legal review and policy review. If a simple majority of the City Council supports further study of the request, then a full staff analysis shall be prepared within thirty (30) days, unless otherwise directed by the City Council.
DISCUSSION
The City Clerk's Office received a Council Written Request on November 24, 2021 requesting to place an agenda item at a future council meeting to consider a Neighborhood Stadium Relations Committee (Attachment 2).
As already mentioned on several occasions, staff capacity is much less than the existing workload and has grown over the past year even with approximately 26% less capacity citywide. While making no judgement on the merits of such request by Councilmember Jain, it is time for the Council to consider all of the legislative bodies that the City currently supports and recently added legislative bodies without additional staff resources. Capacity is finite and each additional legislative body requires significant workload. Accordingly, Attachment 3 provides a list of the City's 32 current Board, Commissions, Committees, Taskforces and Ad-Hoc bodies, many have been created over the past few years which include, but are not limited to:
1. Downtown Taskforce
2. Independent Exchange...
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